'Star' editor smears SLL

side the engineering union's Peckham headquarters as the strike of the AEF's 250 non - salaried staff entered its second day• he made official, is in support of a demand for a £5 interim. increase pending negotiations on a completed job-evaluation exercise.

man or the cAw branch —the majority union-and FEARS that the mounting anti-Tory feeling in the working class is exposing the irrelevance of the Communist Party's electoral The strike was 100 per intervention dominated a Hornsey election meeting addressed by the Party's local candidate Mrs Morris and 'Morning Star' editor One slogan on a picket's George Matthews.

In answer to a question on the fight for industrial action against the Indo-China war, Matthews said, in contradiction to the 'Star's' record, that the paper would always continue to advocate, stimulate and report such action.

He cynically suggested that perhaps the paper's own staff should strike on this issueas it the Merseyside May 1 strike against the war had never taken place.

Stung by this question and knowing full well that it exposed the Stalinist's refusal to fight for industrial action, Matthews launched into an attack on the Socialist Labour League.

The SLL's call to vote Labour, he said, 'completely exposed their nonsensical pseudo-revolutionary' position.

The SLL, he continued, are bitterly and splenetically anticommunist' even more so than anti-Tory.

Replied

Banda replied fully to these and other Stalinist lies over our position on the General Election in Monday's Workers Press.

Comrade Banda emphasized that the CP's electioneering and Utopian, reformist programme does not assist the development of revolutionary consciousness in the working class or assist in taking on the Labourite right wing. We are. not, from the Morris, starting point of view of a propaganda battle' We call on workers to vote Labour and as against the Communist Party candidate in order to take part in the movement of the working class to keep the Tories out.

His anti-Zionist statements are never taken seriously either by the imperialists and their Zionist agents or by the Arab people.

The danger in the present stage of the Arab struggle is in the political character of the guerrilla leadership.

Not only does it continually try to blunt the conflict between the Arab masses and the Arab rulers, but it now comes under the influence of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Arafat himself, leader of both Al-Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization, has recently visited Moscow.

Speaking in Cairo on Saturday, he said that by receiving the Palestine delegation, the USSR recognized the Palestine revolution and its methods of struggle.

'We hope our relations will be strengthened and the Soviet Union will understand our cause better he said.

But every Palestinian knows that Israel would never have come into existence without the support received by the Zionists from Stalin in 19471948.

The aim of all the military assistance given by the Soviet leaders to Egyptian defence today is to enable them to hold back the movement in the Middle East effectivelyand guarantee the status quo.

This was, after all, the basis of Soviet policy during the NOW IT'S UP TO SPECIAL ELECTION and post with 15s to:

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cently recalled from his duties as Czech Ambassador to has been pelled from the Czechoslovak Communist Party, it was reported late on Tuesday.

Attacks on Dubcek and his.

supporters have grown increasingly shrill in the last few weeks.

His name has been indirectly linked with mythical "counter-revolutionary plots' and even the activities of exile fascist groups.

Party secretary Gustav Husak —who deposed Dubcek in May last year—-would prefer the compromise solution returning Dubcek to Ankara Other elements in the bureaucracy have been calling for a series of political 'trials'. And it is these die-hard Stalinists who have set the political tone of the Czech press and radio since the beginning of the Party purge in February.

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NEW YORK WednesdayThe stock market opened listlessly today, with trading slow and the averages down fractionallv.

After half an hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial index was off 0.34.

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